I was the starting center on my high school basketball team and I remember one night the referee made a terrible call and gave me a foul. It was unwarranted and I told him so. He didn’t like that, but I continued to argue. I got a technical foul. At that point I was so… Continue reading HOW TO BE GOOD AND MAD!
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A CLEAR CONSCIENCE
Perhaps when you were a small child, your mother told you not to take a cookie from the cookie jar, but you couldn’t resist the smell of those freshly baked chocolate chip cookies, and you took one. Then there was that little voice inside that told you you’d done wrong. Perhaps it may have been… Continue reading A CLEAR CONSCIENCE
THE SEARCH FOR FORGIVENESS
A woman sat in my office and told me her tragic story. She had had an abortion. Though it had happened years earlier, she was still plagued by feelings of regret and remorse. She lived with convicting guilt. She couldn’t get rid of the feeling that she had done something terribly wrong. Guilt dominated her… Continue reading THE SEARCH FOR FORGIVENESS
MY PAST WON’T LET ME GO
Helen grew up in a terrible environment. There was constant strife between her parents and she lived in constant tension. Her father bullied her badly. There was never an encouraging word, she never heard a compliment and she was beaten and abused. Helen has been married for more than 20 years but the memory of… Continue reading MY PAST WON’T LET ME GO
QUIT TRYING TO FORGIVE YOURSELF
When Carol asked for an appointment, I had no idea what her problem was. It seemed that she and her husband were happily married and they had three beautiful children. Carol came to the office and told me her tragic story. Twelve years earlier she had had an abortion and she was still plagued by… Continue reading QUIT TRYING TO FORGIVE YOURSELF